Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt (born William Bradley Pitt) was born on December 18, 1963, and is an American actor and film producer.

In 1991 his role in Thelma & Louise became his breakout. In 1995 he won his first Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 12 Monkeys; he was later nominated for Golden Globes for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for films including Legends of the Fall (1994) and Babel (2006). In 2007 he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In 2019 he won his first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Beyond acting, he founded the production company Plan B Entertainment in 2001. Its films The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Moonlight (2016) each won the Academy Award for Best Picture, while The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011) and The Big Short (2015) were nominated for it. English Wikipedia also notes that his films as a leading actor have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide, and that People magazine named him Sexiest Man Alive in 1995 and 2000.